MindView 3 Business - Professional Mind Mapping Software


MatchWare hit a homerun with their latest version of MindView. With the addition of an Excel import/export function, which pairs nicely with the new calculation features, MatchWare offers the industry’s most impressive MS Office integration. MindView 3 Business is a comprehensive tool that no business should be without.
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Essential Mind Mapping Software for your business!

MatchWare’s MindView 3 Business is a professional Mind Mapping® software application that allows users to brainstorm and visualize ideas quickly and easily. MindView 3 Business makes meetings more productive, accelerates project planning and helps turn ideas into action faster than ever before!

Mind Mapping in 4 Easy Steps

Mind Mapping in 4 Easy Steps
 Create a Mind Map
 Take notes to your Mind Map
 Customize your Mind Map
 Export your Mind Map



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Powerful MS Office Integration

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6 Interchangeable Mind Map views

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Calculation and Excel Integration

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1. Creating a Mind Map

MindView 3 Business lets you instantly produce professional-looking Mind Maps with a few quick clicks of your mouse. To begin building your Mind Map, simply enter a central topic and then brainstorm sub-ideas to create your Mind Map’s “branches”. Once you’ve added all of your ideas and sub-ideas to your Mind Map, your Mind Map’s branches can easily be reorganized by simply dragging and dropping them anywhere on your Mind Map. Mind Mapping really can be that easy!

MindView 3 Business’ new interface is based on the Microsoft Office 2007 Fluent™ interface (also referred to as the Ribbon). This intuitive and visual interface helps you find exactly what you need to create effective Mind Maps - fast.

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2. Taking notes to your Mind Map

As one of the most effective professional Mind Mapping software applications, MindView 3 Business enables you to quickly add notes to any branch of your Mind Map. Simply open the ribbon’s text editor and click to insert text to elaborate on your ideas. You can even attach files (PDF Excel, Word, video, sound files, picture files and more) and insert hyperlinks on any of your Mind Map’s branches. There is no limit to the number of files you can attach to any branch of your Mind Map. You can even add “sticky notes” to your Mind Map’s branches. MindView 3 Business makes Mind Mapping more productive than ever!

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3. Customizing your Mind Map

Create your Mind Map in one of 6 interchangeable views

MindView 3 Business provides 6 different views in which to display your ideas: Mind Map, top down, left-right, outline, timeline, and Gantt chart. You can work in any Mind Map view and transfer ideas from one view to another with a simple click of your mouse.

Choose a predefined Mind Map layout

MindView 3 Business makes it easy to customize your Mind Map. It offers an impressive selection of predefined Mind Map layouts, styles and galleries. Simply hover over the contents of the gallery of your choice to preview the effect of any option on your Mind Map and then click on your choice to apply it to your Mind Map.

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Customize the appearance of your Mind Map in one simple step

MindView 3 Business lets you change the overall appearance of your Mind Map by applying shapes, colors and other coordinated attributes to your Mind Map branches in just a few easy steps.

Complete your Mind Map with quality images

You can even add visual interest to your Mind Map by inserting pictures on any branch. MindView supports all standard picture formats, so you can use your own images or add pictures from our multimedia catalog using the easy keyword search.

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4. Exporting your Mind Map

The effectiveness of any Mind Mapping software depends largely on its integration with MS Office. MindView 3 Business integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook and Project, allowing you to instantly convert your Mind Map to an outline in Word or a presentation in PowerPoint or to export your Mind Map as a Website or to Mediator (MatchWare’s multimedia authoring tool) – all with a single click of your mouse!

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What is Mind Mapping?

A Mind Map is a diagram used to represent concepts, ideas, tasks or other items linked to a central theme. In a Mind Map, the central theme is often illustrated with a graphical image. The ideas related to the main theme radiate in a clockwise direction from that central image as "branches". Topics and ideas of lesser importance are represented as "sub-branches" of their relevant branch.

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By presenting the relationships between ideas in a non-linear graphical manner, Mind Mapping encourages a brainstorming approach to the handling and organization of information. Mind Maps have numerous applications both in the education sector, where they are used as an aid to studying and learning, and in the business sector, to facilitate critical thinking, problem solving and decision making.

Mind Maps have many strengths and benefits:

Simple

  • Easy to create
  • Easy to expand
  • Easy to filter

Visual

  • Easy to remember
  • Easy to overview
  • Highlight links and relationships

Creative

  • Stimulate imagination
  • Boost motivation
  • Improve productivity

Collaborative

  • Promote team spirit
  • Encourage group communication
  • Optimize work processes

 The theory behind Mind Mapping


People have been organizing their thoughts for centuries by drawing graphical "tree-like" representations of their ideas, particularly in the areas of psychology and education. The concept of the modern Mind Map was developed by Tony Buzan, a British psychologist and businessman, who argued that the radial structure of Mind Maps, reinforced by the use of lines, symbols, words, color and images, is much more in line with the brain natural way of processing information than the traditional linear approach. According to the Mind Mapping theory, the use of Mind Maps is therefore not only significantly more conducive to memory retention, but also promotes creativity, organization and analytical skills.

The five essential characteristics of a Mind Map:

  • The main idea, subject or focus is crystallized in a central image.
  • The main themes radiate from the central image as "branches".
  • Each branch includes a key image or word drawn on its associated line.
  • Topics of lesser importance are represented as "twigs" of the relevant branch.
  • The branches form a connected "tree-like" structure.

Building a Mind Map typically consists of the following steps:

  1. Start from the central concept or issue
  2. Create branches and sub-branches to capture all related ideas and issues
  3. Add pictures, documents, hyperlinks as needed to each branch
  4. Arrange the branches logically
  5. Create visual links between related branches
  6. Present or distribute your Mind Map

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Strengths and benefits of Mind Mapping software


It is of course possible to draw Mind Maps by hand, but using specialized Mind Mapping software such as MindView will greatly increase their potential, resulting in many new applications and additional benefits.

Typical uses of Mind Mapping software:

  • Individual use

    • Taking notes
    • Organizing ideas
    • Planning reports and proposals
    • Task management
    • Time management
    • Project planning
    • Problem solving


  • Collaboration

    • Meeting agendas
    • Brainstorm sessions
    • Presentations
    • Workshops
    • Seminars
    • Strategy meetings
    • Planning meetings

Benefits of using MindView to build your Mind Maps: